Note: all of these selections are optional, sellers can simply place all their item information in the description field as it is usually done on other sites and buyers will still be able to search for your item in the same manner they do on those other sites, but they will not receive the advantages built into our system.  Sellers need only accept the default "undeclared" value for these fields and buyers can choose to include or not include items with that undeclared value in their search or browse request.

We are booksellers, and we know that the time spent listing an item is valuable, so we have made the process of entering the extra information required as quick and easy as possible.  In some ways, our system can speed up the entry of book identification data because the one or two click field value selection process can eliminate the need to put this information in the description field*.  Additionally, when sellers use our title, author, publisher, pub date, and condition fields, these values are auto-inserted into the ad or auction title to save the effort of typing them in again.  Sellers can then copy and paste this information into the description field if they want to use it as part of their description.

Here are the most important (optional) Collectors Book Market standardized fields and their values:

Special Fields

Binding Leather/Vellum Fine Binding Hardcover Reinforced Binding Softcover/Wraps Mass Market Paperback Novelty/Other Unbound/Manuscript Non-book Undeclared Book Type Original/Trade Edition Limited Edition Ex-Library Book Club Edtion Remainder Arc/Other Pre-Pub Audio Book Periodical Non-book/Other Undeclared Condition  As New Fine NF VG Good Fair Poor Disbound N/A Undeclared DJ Condition  As New Fine NF VG Good Fair Poor None None Issued Undeclared Pub Date Category Antiquarian Art and Design Biography/Memoir Business Children many others Seller Keyword/Catalog Complete Category List Category Suggestion  Forum

*Sellers are encouraged to provide full and complete descriptions for all items, however, so if the field value selection is only partially correct or it is too general, more specific information should always be placed in the description field.  An example would be the Novelty/Other binding field, which allows buyers to include or not include that value in their search or browse results, while the seller should put the specific binding type in the description.